Field notes, v491
Page 33
Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley. | www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
May 15, 1935 Salmon Cr. Reservoir, Twin Falls Co, Idaho. Collected trap line at sunrise on summit of nearly peak with no success with live traps but got 5 P. ornithio + a couple of P. m. sonniensis. The latter is more orange + has shorter tail (we had plenty of these I didn't trap them). Came back to camp & Bill was trying to get hot cakes with the wind blowing. Worked on skinning till 1:30 I fed carcasses to "Clap Clap" the pet owl. At 2:30 Twining & myself hiked down further down. A vast difference could be seen in the bottom of the canyon compared to life above. Stream side was covered with small willow + horsebils. Bark of willower eaten by Viscagrapines. Such birds that weren't found above in the prairie were Solinie Warblers Song Sparrow. A small jibene-like note was heard above willows and saw a Hummer doing Powers dives over female. Thought it was "black-chinned" but thru binoculars I saw its concolorate gorget making it a Calliope. After a while they were